Entertainment Weekly's "20 Scariest Movies of All Time"

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Looking for some quick chills? Entertainment Weekly picks the films with the most fright per frame. These movies are listed in alphabetical order, as the EW list listed them in a random order.

  1. 1.
    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    by Wes Craven

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  2. 2.
    An American Werewolf in London

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  3. 3.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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  4. 4.
    Evil Dead (Special Edition)

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  5. 5.
    Halloween

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  6. 6.
    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    by John McNaughton

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  7. 8.
    Lost Highway [IMPORT]

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  8. 9.
    Night of the Living Dead

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  9. 10.
    Poltergeist
    by Tobe Hooper

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  10. 11.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  11. 12.
    Rosemary's Baby

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  12. 13.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

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  13. 14.
    The Silence of the Lambs - Criterion Collection
    by Jonathan Demme

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  14. 15.
    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin

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  15. 16.
    The Hitcher
    by Robert Harmon

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  16. 17.
    The Omen
    by Richard Donner

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  17. 18.
    The Shining
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  18. 19.
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    by Tobe Hooper

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  19. 20.
    The Thing - Collector's Edition

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Comments

mark
Randolph

lost highway — 6 weeks ago

i’m having trouble finding this movie. can someone tell me where they found it?


mark
Randolph

almost done — 20 weeks ago

only 4 move movies then i’m done.this list didn’t include alot of movies that it should have.


Say what??? — 23 weeks ago

Jaws, the thing? NOT. Hellraiser beats this list, what about 13 ghosts tell me there are better! This list like all the others on the net are bogus.


It's a laugh — 27 weeks ago

Jaws isn’t scary at all. Neither is Lost Highway. I mean they both a barely horror movies. Se7en is not that scary and Poltergeist is a children’s movie. The Exor cist, The Scilence of the Lambs, Carries and Henry are Scary though. Interesting List


Kyle_R
Tyneside Cinema

Seven?! — 2 years ago

Seriously how can Seven possibly be one of the scariest movies? It is barely even a thriller! Just about any other film from the Horror genre is guarenteed more scares than Seven.


I hope to god thats not in order — 2 years ago

Please say thats not in any particular order. If it was you guys are way off. There are way scarier movies than half of what you have up there. Your first three picks should be in the comedy section. Where is Ju-on or Stir of echos. How about Suspiria or Carnival of souls. All I’m saying is if your gonna put together a list of scariest movies of all times, do your homework and scare the crap out of yourself for a couple days and rent some real ones.


David Gwilliam
New York City

Untitled — 2 years ago

wow, i have seen literally not one of these as of today. i knew i wasn’t huge on horror, but this is ridiculous.


YG

What lies beneath — 2 years ago

is the scariest movie I have ever seen…


rubyyot
San Antonio

Not so scary — 2 years ago

I’ve seen a good number of these and don’t think that any of them are as scary as The Grudge or The Ring. I’m finding horror wih roots in Japanese culture to be much scarier than American horror.